Your baby isn’t broken. Neither are your instincts.
You never have to leave your baby alone to cry to “fix” sleep.There’s nothing to fix; only a language to learn (and sometimes a pattern to read). This is Integrative Infant Sleep™. And it’s mind-body-spirit medicine for mothers and babies. For the collective. It’s a reclamation.
I founded Good Night Moon Child in 2021 to shift the prevailing parenting paradigm away from disconnection and back toward connection. My work blends ancient wisdom and modern science to challenge deeply held Western norms that sit insidiously in our subconscious and subjugates babies and their needs. Since our babies spend roughly 13,000 hours sleeping over the arc of neurobiological infancy (the first three years of life), sleep is a powerful portal. It’s an open door. A door back to our own inner-knowing, back to our original way of being, and into deep relationship with our babies and ourselves.
For the last 200 years, our dominant culture has expected — no, it has required — women to live and mother in a way that is incongruent with what we are biologically designed to do: nurture our babies during the day and at night.
Western culture separates mothers and babies too soon, pathologizes normal infant behavior, celebrates disconnection and “independence”, and endlessly shouts “sleep training” despite interdisciplinary evidence reiterating the critical importance of warmth, attunement, and responsiveness.
My work explores baby sleep through science and spirit, blending indigenous wisdom traditions, mysticism, neuroscience, developmental science, anthropology, and evolutionary biology to show parents how they can meet their babies’ needs at night AND thrive in the day.
Dependence is not a flaw in development. It’s the foundation of (later) independence.
Your baby isn’t broken for needing you at night. It’s the colonial, capitalist, patriarchal paradigm that’s broken.
Let your baby need you. Let them be little. Dependence is not a flaw in development. It’s the foundation of (later) independence.
My invitation is equal parts sigh of relief and return to intuition. To original wisdom.
Mother against the machine
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What if the answer to your baby’s sleep already exists within you?
Sacred Sleep
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We have been asked to mother against our and our babies’ biology. So many “sleep problems” dissolve once we stop asking babies to sleep alone. Babies are biologically designed to wake frequently, seek proximity, and feed at night. In fact, infant sleep is fragmented by design to protect against SIDS.
A baby who wakes at night is not broken. A baby who needs closeness is not manipulative. A baby who calls out is not a problem to solve. That’s just a baby being a baby. A baby communicating the only way they know how.
Sacred Sleep is where modern science meets ancient wisdom. It’s a reclamation of the mother-baby bond as brilliant and sleep as a sacred portal back to your own power. It’s a refusal to keep outsourcing maternal authority to systems that were never designed to support mothers and babies. It’s a reckoning. It’s mind-body-spirit medicine so you can mother from a place of peace, ease, and joy — with connection — instead of disconnection.
If you’ve ever felt like something about modern sleep advice doesn’t sit right in your body, it’s because it’s totally incongruent with our biology.
Hi, I’m Britt.
In October of 2020, I gave birth to my first child. I was transformed. I shifted away from a ten-year career working for a renowned global nonprofit and began exploring infant psychology and neurobiology.
I’ve been where you are. I understand the exhaustion, depletion, and anxiety of early motherhood.
I also know what it’s like to feel desperate for sleep solutions only to be faced with binary options: wait it out or cry it out.
Here’s what I learned: Since babies’ brains don't have the architecture to even begin to regulate on their own until they're 3-5 years old (the myth of self-soothing!), sleep training doesn't actually teach sleep. We have mistaken adaptation for well-being. We have normalized a system that asks mothers to betray their instincts. A system that actively undermines a baby’s potential to become a secure, independent, and healthily attached adult.
But it’s bigger than sleep. We’re also seeing skyrocketing rates of maternal anxiety and depletion, chronic stress in developing nervous systems, and a generation of parents wondering why something feels off when they’re “doing everything right".
When mothers are given accurate information about infant biology – when they understand what is normal, when they are supported in responding instead of resisting – their entire existence is altered.
Infant sleep is not something to train. The mother-baby relationship is not an obstacle to overcome,
I’ve worked with thousands of families and trained practitioners around the world in a radically different approach to infant sleep—one rooted in biology, nervous system science, attachment, and ancient wisdom.
If you’ve been stuck in sleep spirals or self doubt, this is your invitation to listen to the call of your instincts. To let motherhood change you.
Integrative Infant Sleep™
Raising kids that are wired for connection is so much bigger than the debate of cosleeping vs sleep training. But the shared struggle all parents face — the reason you’re Googling “how much crying is too much crying?” — is sleep. The answer to your baby’s sleep isn’t on the internet. But it might be here. So get started. Questions? You can write to me at brittany@goodnightmoonchild.com
This is bigger than baby sleep. Sleep is just where the rupture becomes impossible to ignore.